Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burke, who is not a lawyer, was immediately challenged by several attorneys in the audience. One of them, Phillip Burling, said later that "the idea that we've got to provide museum space in the Library is just absurd...
Author Richard Bach may be surprised to learn that his inspirational flight manual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has run into flak from a Red Guard group in Fukien province. Noting the popularity of the "tasteless and absurd" book in Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, the group, via "Fukien Front" radio, has attacked what it calls "the Chiang gang's insidious motive in advocating the seagull character." The motive: to persuade intellectuals to oppose Communism. "Prominent personages in the Chiang gang," noted the young Red Guards, "have even openly called on the people to act like this particular seagull, pursue...
...Plarr. Plarr's British father has been held for years in a Paraguayan prison, and Plarr has not only become involved with the kidnapers but is the lover of Charley Fortnum's young wife. When Fortnum winds up a hostage, Plarr finds himself in one of those absurd and passionate plights that Greene is so skillful at convincing us are truthful metaphors for man's lot in life. "Let this comedy end as comedy," Plarr says in mock prayer. "None of us are suited for tragedy." But naturally, this wish is not granted...
...acquisitions challenged by the Justice Department, only after getting feelers from the financially rocky firm. Lee Tire & Rubber had not produced a single tire in the past 30 months before it was acquired by Goodyear in 1966. Firestone issued a statement saying that the Government suit against it "is absurd and untenable and has no foundation in economics or law." In its view, traditional among antitrust defendants, the Government is merely trying to penalize size and success...
...spectrum of viewpoints which could at worst be called middle-class, Cuba's press has only one government line. Where could a writer living in a country which has been the victim of foreign interventionists express outrage over the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia? Insipid thought control becomes absurd. Cubans are instructed that Ernest Hemingway exploited them because he made money from writing...